Peering over the ledge, he saw a crowd of soldiers standing on the shingle at the mouth of the cavern.

He had held out bravely, but he could hold out no longer; slowly and laboriously he climbed down the dark face of the precipice, and reached the narrow strip of shingle below, just as the moon got clear from a cloud and lighted up the cavern.

Its cold rays fell on the white face of the sergeant, who laid half on the shingle and half in the water, crushed by the great boulder with which Rohan had broken down the ladders.

But instead of waiting in the offing, she will make straight off up Channel to a little strip of shingle underneath Hoar Head.'

SHINGLY, abounding with shingle or loose gravel.

Old Tardrew waddles stooping along the line where grass and shingle meet, his bulldog visage bent to his very knees.

Musical examines, throws her nose into the air, and answers by the rich bell-like note of the true otter hound; and all the woodlands ring as the pack dashes down the shingle to her call.

"Never in my life hung out a shingle as a hoss-catcher," he assured her.

The ducks were talking in the reeds, the reeds themselves were talking, and the water lapping softly about the smooth limestone shingle.

The bottom should be composed entirely of shingle or small pebbles, well washed.

It was a moment when the steerer required all his circumspectness, as the vessel was nearing a spot where two islands narrowed the channel of the river, while shallow banks of shingle stretching off, first on one side and then on the other, made the navigation difficult and dangerous.

She also had a cigarette between her lips, and there was genuine relaxation in her fashion of lounging on the shingle.

Green's hand suddenly gripped a handful of shingle and ground it forcibly.

They went down the shingle to the edge of the sand and began to walk along the shore.

He kept it to help her up the tumbling stones to a higher ridge of shingle.

Something drew him down the narrow cleft that led to the spot where first he had seen her lying on the shingle dreaming with her head upon her arm.

Mr. Browne, just out of college, hung out his shingle as a physician and surgeon, and forthwith, with all the confidence his profession is supposed to inspire, proceeded to marry the daughter of a brokerage banker in Boston and at once found himself struggling with the difficulties of Back Bay society.

XIII "These twenty thousand good years or more," Quoth he, "on this burning shingle I have led a lonesome Bachelor's life, Nor known the comfort of babe or wife 'Tis a longtime to live single.

It takes less time to build an avenue of shingle palaces than to hide away unseen, block by block, the vast foundation-stones of an observatory.

Making too free with the shore with a low sun ahead, we grounded for a short time on a shingle spit extending off the low point North-West from Circular Head.

The same strange depth was likewise found three miles south from Cape Wollami, with the same kind of gravel bottom, or a very fine kind of shingle.

The South-West side of the peak rises perpendicularly from a grassy flat, which stretches across that part of the island, separating two bays, the beaches of which with the rest on the island are composed of granulated quartz, and coarse shingle.

Mrs. Engle, in her quarters above-stairs, ate her breakfast off a shingle with her husband's jack-knife, and when she had finished, sent them down to Lieutenant Foster for his accommodation.

He's jest the kind of an innocent angel I'd love to take a hemlock shingle to, and would, if it wuzn't for makin' talk."

" Sez I, "We have a right to plow green sword, shingle a steep barn ruff, or break a yoke of steers.